Poet Laureate of Nowhere
Excerpt: “At 38, Sharif has a clear-eyed sense of the discomfort she wants to explore, and an equally clear-eyed sense of the things she disdains. Among them: Poets whose ethics she doesn’t agree with (she refused to name names); metaphors (her editor Jeff Shotts told me she scoured the final manuscript of Look to make sure there weren’t any); and empathy.”
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